FIRE crews have been tackling blazes involving straw stacks and trees today.

FIRE crews have been tackling blazes involving straw stacks and trees today.

Firefighters were called to Orford Road in Tunstall at about 12.45pm where a stack of straw about 15m by 30m was on fire.

Then at 1.40pm another crew was called to Bentley Plant Centre on Bergholt Road, Bentley, where 10m of conifer hedging was on fire.

Firefighters used a hose reel to bring that fire under control.